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...Many French cinema owners, who are putting pressure on Cannes to resist Netflix et al, see the streamers’ disruptive attitude as an incursion into their territory....
...It wants to keep both Turner Broadcasting, Time Warner’s suite of cable networks that includes CNN and TBS, and DirecTV, the satellite television company it bought in 2014 for $48.5bn....
...Other smaller cable network owners such as AMC Networks are feeling the pinch as cable and broadband providers get bigger and the likes of Netflix and Facebook compete for video viewers....
...Shares in Time Warner rose 1.3 per cent in pre-market trading....
...Rivals including 21st Century Fox and Walt Disney have hinted at possible concerns about a combined AT&T-Time Warner and the prospect of a distribution and content powerhouse while Al Franken, the Democratic...
...Time Warner has agreed to pay a $1.7bn break-fee to AT&T if it opts to sell to another buyer while AT&T will pay Time Warner $500m if regulators block the deal, according to two people close to the negotiations...
...Al Franken, the senator for Minnesota — and a critic of other cable and media tie-ups — said the deal raised "some immediate flags about consolidation…I'm skeptical of huge media mergers because they can...
...The dramatic US presidential race has lifted advertising revenues across pay-TV networks this year, boosting earnings for companies including Time Warner and 21st Century Fox....
...But he is in good spirits, pleased that steps to revive the Time Warner-owned network, taken since his appointment three-and-a-half years ago, seem to be paying off....
...But while newspapers are increasingly taking their lead from BuzzFeed et al, and their mastery of content distribution via platforms such as Facebook, the digital upstarts are shifting focus to a distinctly...
...He has also guest-hosted on TBS, the satellite and cable channel owned by the Turner Broadcasting System division of Time Warner, another sign that established media organisations are trying to capture gaming...
...At the same time the media industry is set to be transformed by AT&T’s $85.4bn offer for Time Warner, a deal that still needs US regulatory approval....
...Mr Ailes, an aide to former President Richard Nixon, created Fox News with Mr Murdoch in 1996, turning it into a US cable news leader that has eclipsed Time Warner’s CNN in audience ratings for more than...
...“I think you can probably watch Bridge of Spies at home, but I wouldn’t want to watch ET there,” says Obst. “I wouldn’t want to watch The Revenant at home....
...Time Warner Cable lost 43,000, compared with a loss of 147,000 in the second quarter of 2014....
...In a nod to the popularity of subscription services such as Netflix, Jeff Bewkes, chief executive of Time Warner, owner of networks such as CNN and HBO, recently said television was “in the midst of a secular...
...One of the big mysteries in corporate America is whether telecom regulators will allow the Comcast/Time Warner Cable merger, announced in February, to close....
...Discovery Communications has been pondering a first-time bid and Al Jazeera may also be in the frame. There are 168 matches available, and no bidder can be awarded more than five packages....
...The deal was seen as a way for Al Jazeera to extend its reach – even though Time Warner Cable, the second-largest US cable provider, immediately dropped Current, cutting its reach to 41m homes....
...On the opposing side of the argument is a clutch of companies that are best described as the “pipe guys” – broadband and cable groups such as Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Charter Communications, as well...
...(FT) Corporate earnings with results coming from Amazon, Ford Motor, Google, Royal Dutch Shell and Time Warner Cable among others. Head over to FastFT to see the reports as they come....
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...The latest case, Google v Joffe et al, involves a class action suit stemming from the company’s illicit collection of snippets of information from WiFi networks in homes that its StreetView cars were passing...
...Comcast’s offer for Time Warner Cable trumped a rival bid from Charter Communications, the cable operator in which John Malone’s Liberty Media owns a 27 per cent stake....
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